My little sister just accepted a seat in Respiratory Therapy at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary Alberta. The same school I went to. This was an informed decision she made on her own without bias from me. She will began classes in the fall of 2006.
I hope to have her join as [...]
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From news@nature.com:
Natural birth teaches newborn gut a lesson
A messy birth could be good for the baby's digestion. So say researchers in Germany, who have found evidence that baby mice squeezing through the birth canal swallow bacterial molecules that help their gut grow healthily. The finding suggests that kids born by caesarean might miss out.
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On April 4th, 2006 a 14 person panel from the US Institute of Medicine released a report on sleep. Thay say that about 50 to 70 million Americans are suffering from a sleep disorder and many more suffer from sleep deprivation. It seems some 20% of major car crashes are linked to sleepy drivers. More [...]
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This is a great video of an animal model of ventilating at ZEEP then at 15cmH2O of PEEP and then back to ZEEP. It is a great example of recruitment and decruitment of the lung during tidal ventilation at different ventilator settings.
I can’t remember where I got this video but I think it was done [...]
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